[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius revisited

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 104205

Katie (I think) said:

>If the rest of his
>family is anything like his mother, I'd say it's remarkable that he
>turned out as well as he did :)

I'll say. Note that "the rest of his family" includes not only Mrs. Black, 
but Bellatrix Black Lestrange.  If Sirius had latent mental problems, he 
came by them honestly.  Much though I regret his death, it might have been 
merciful.  He wouldn't have become a racist or a sadist, but he might have 
ended up with some kind of dementia -- possibly the result of the inbreeding 
in his family.

(I know some people have protested that inbreeding isn't *necessarily* the 
cause of instability.  But the Blacks took it as far as several of the 
real-world royal families used to -- the Spanish and Austrian, for example 
-- with not dissimilar results.)


Janet Anderson

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